Mariah Carey Still Plans To Release Her 1995 Alt-Rock Project: “It’s A Good Album”
Mariah Carey is ready for the world to hear her alternative rock album, which was shelved almost 30 years ago.
During an interview on Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’ Las Culturistas podcast, the songbird spoke about the album, Someone’s Ugly Daughter. She reassured her fans that she hasn’t forgotten about the LP and has been kicking herself that it was never released, saying, “I’m so mad I haven’t done that yet.”
Carey then wondered what a possible release would look like for the LP, questioning whether or not she should go to a record label for her rock LP. Rogers then insisted that she should give the album an independent release through software like Garage Band.
“I could do that,” Carey said. “It’s a good album. OK, you will hear it. I was getting life from that, seriously. It was jokes, as well. They’re everlasting.”
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During a 2022 interview with Rolling Stone, Mariah Carey spoke of the album. Carey’s version of Chick’s (her alt-rock alias) 1995 album Someone’s Ugly Daughter, exists, and the singer now possesses it. Carey told the outlet that the album could receive a re-release with her vocals attached somewhere down the line.
“We actually have it,” MC said at the time. “[It’ll] become something we should hear, but also, I’m working on a version where there will be another artist working with me. Possibly something built around the album.”
“This was my outlet, and nobody knew about it,” Carey expressed. “I honestly wanted to put the record out back then and let them discover that it was me, but that idea was squashed.”
Mariah Carey attends the Recording Academy Honors presented by The Black Music Collective during the 66th GRAMMY Awards on February 01, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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In her memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, the iconic songstress revealed she secretly recorded the alternative LP while working on Daydream. Unfortunately, Columbia Records refused to release the album with Carey as the singer and had Carey’s longtime friend Clarissa Dane to front the band for the LP.
The album was released with Dane as lead singer and Carey, still collaborating with the band, contributing background vocals. The singer kept her involvement a secret for three decades.